Monday, June 30, 2003

Folk Life Festival! Tiffany and I did the Folk Life Festival yesterday afternoon, taking pictures, walking through exhibits, all in the middle of the hot summer sunshine. I enjoyed the festival this year, but not nearly as much as I did last year. The Silk Road festival was far more integrated and creative than the Mali/Scotland/Appalachia combination. Besides, Appalachia was weak! They had some music and a railroad exhibit, and that was all. Hell, the Mali exhibit was building a home and the Scots had a friggin' castle built. I was really impressed with the curling stones and the tartan-weaving looms, they were awesome! We took tons of pictures which will eventually be made into a book using iPhoto and for now, they are up at my .Mac site here: Folk Life Festival 4:37:21 PM  comment []

Monday Morning Stream of Consciousness Hot and Muggy here in DC today, on its way to being close to 88 with 90% humidity, which makes for a sticky situation here. No breeze whatsoever! Ick. Going to stay inside today, I think. Might cook with fire later, though. Here is today's random stream of consciousness. Brent picks up on Echo with a good explanation of what it is and what it's intended to do. I still don't understand why they need a new blogging API to go with it, but a new form of RSS (particularly one that asshat Winer didn't "invent" ) could come in rather handy. Most telling however is this: Design by come-one-come-all committee may make delivering a good spec nearly impossible, because so many people want to solve their favorite technical problem. Too many engineers may lead to an over-engineered format, which would subvert the goal of delivering a clear, well-specified, easy-to-use format. David Selders is blogging again! A new Declaration of Independence via Doc Any attempts to change the current system will get you labeled if not libeled. So what. Liberal and conservative are characterizations that serve the powerful. I feel reduced by them, not defined. The libertarian consensus is the new counterculture, a motivating force behind the second superpower emerging on the Web, the future. Let[base ']s celebrate it on the Fourth of July, and then get to work on making it happen. Blessing for a Seismograph. Almighty everlasting God, whose very gaze causes the Earth to tremble, pour out your blessing on this seismograph; and grant that the signs of the Earth's tremors may be precisely recorded by it, and then rightly interpreted by man, both for the benefit of your people and for the greater glory of your name; through Christ our Lord. Steven Frank wraps up WWDC. Apart from the completely unusable AirPort network, and the rather borderline lunches, this was one of the best WWDCs I've been too, especially in terms of new things being announced. Wired's got a story on the Ninth Circuit Court Decision not to allow libel charges for bloggers who republish information. Meaning if that I quote someone who is libelous, I cannot also be sued. Boing Boing linked to an interesting editorial from the LA Times (reg req) regarding Music Sharing. "I would guess that you would then see stories about the family faced with economic ruin and the cost of having to hire defense counsel, settling for $10,000 or $20,000, and the money they were saving for Timmy's college education now has to go to Kid Rock," said Philip S. Corwin, a lobbyist in Washington for Sharman Networks, distributor of the Kazaa file-sharing software. Some is also trying to defeat Apple's copy-protection on the iTMS. Not sure it's a good idea, but here's the info 12:04:55 PM  comment []

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